conservative communism?

Well, I mean, fascists are generally considered to be far-right, though often they have a lot of supposedly "leftist" ideas in their governments. The way I've always thought about it is fascism is conservatism gone so far right that it's broken off the scale and gone round, and has started becoming left again ;) And the reverse is true for communism; or, at least, extreme, statist communism.

There's different kinds of communism, of course. And then you get into that whole mess of ideas like anarcho-capitalism -- is it leftist? Conservative? Or just silly? Who knows...

Things are not nearly that clear cut. I consider the USSR to have been an incredibly conservative country... Different opinions, I suppose.
 
Well Communism may not be Liberal, but it is more Authoritiation and Opressive than Social Conservatism.

Only economically. When it comes to peoples personal lives they are both in favor of control. Social Conservatism doesn't have any set economic policy, so we can't compare it on that level. However, both Social Conservatism and Communism are equally "Authoritarian and Oppressive" when it comes down to the front we can compare it on, social issues. For very different reasons, of course. One because of religion, the other because of the need for everyone to be the same.
 
Here is the best example of the political spectrum i've ever seen. this one is 3d. The top peak of the prism is absolute totalitarianism. The bottom peak is absolute anarchy. the center line is a ballenced democratic soceity. the line on the front, and a maching unseen line in the back are economic veiw points, and the lines on the edge of the prism are socal veiw points. the point being that soical and economic ideology matter less and less as one comes closer to true anarchy and true totalitarianism.

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I think Communism can be conservative, at least perhaps socially, if Marx would have embraced religion instead of denying it. Maybe Communism might have been liberal on the economic scale but perhaps on military and social matters, much more conservative. I know a lot of early Puritan settlers to America, practiced some sort of commonly held land in the beginning.
 
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